Meat-tenderer



(NoModeL) E. J. SEVERANOE.

MEAT TENDERER.

No. 437,517. Patented Sept. 30, 1890.

A TTOR/VEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDSON J. SEVERANOE, OF MORRISON, ILLINOIS.

MEAT-TENDERER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,517, dated September so, 1890.

Application filed November 9, 1889. Serial No. 329,808. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Emma J. SEVERANCE,

of Morrison, in the county of Whiteside and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Meat 'lenderer, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. 7 My invention relates to a class of meattendering implements which effect their ob ject by numerously puncturing the substance they engage instead of bruising the same by an instrument having blunt projections.

The object in view is to produce a simple, neat, compact, and convenient meat-tenderin g implement which will cut the substance and intimately subdivide its fiber with lancinating-teeth, and that may be readily taken apart to cleanse it and quickly restored to a working condition.

. The invention consists in certain features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described, and indicated in the claims.

- Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device. Fig.2 is an end elevation of the same resting on a base. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detached view of a portion of one .toothed section of the implement. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a modification, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged detached view of one of the finger-springs of the device.

The device consists, essentially, of ahandlebar A, which terminates in an integral crossbar A, the ends of which are secured by rivets to the outer terminals of two similar channel-plates B B, thus retaining the latternamed pieces spaced apart'a proper distance. The opposite ends of the channel-plates are attached to the ends of a flat transverse bar 0, which is of the same length, width, and thickness as the cross-bar A At the point of junction between the handle-barA and integral cross-bar A a channel-plate B is secured by riveting it to the cross-bar, the opposite end of this intermediate channel-plate being similarly attached to the bar 0. The channel-plates being alike, a description of one will be sufficient.

The channel-plateB is bent from'a piece ofrectangular sheet metal, preferably galvane ized iron, two paralleldepending flanges. a being produced by turning the material at the points a, in the same direction at right angles to the flat web that connects them. The depending portions a-are notched at intervals throughout their-length to provide spaced teeth I), which are substantially V- shaped,'with the exception that they are not pointed angular, but have their apex out oif and edges flattened orbeveled from each'side' to a central sharp edge, in effect chisel-shaped, so as to cut squarely and produce lancinating punctures in the meat when it is struck by the implement.

Two equal spaces intervene between. the outer channel-plates B B and the middle plate B and in these openings the clearingflanges c c 0 care locatedin pairs, said flanges being formed from sheetmetal blanks in shape similar to the toothed channel-plates which have been described. The pairs of clearing-flanges c are spaced apart by the integral webs c of such a width as will locate them in sliding contact with adjacent toothed flanges a. The length of the flanges c from the lower edge 0 to their connecting-webs o is so proportioned that when the two sections they produce are adapted to slide "between the channel-plates the webs 0 will lie in a plane above the top surface of the cross-bars A O, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

It is desirable that the pairs of clearingflanges have independent vertical movement as pairs, so that when engaging meat sliced of uneven thickness or more solid in portions of its mass the implement may operate efficiently and the clearing-flanges yield at either of their ends, as their service may require. To this end the flanges c c of the clearingsections F (so named for convenience) are reduced in length for a main portion of their height, whereby the sections are permitted to slide between the cross-bars A O downwardly, their remaining upper portions 6, that are the full length of the clearing-sections F, being imposed upon the cross-bars when all the parts are assembled, as shown in Fig. 1.

The transverse equalizing-bar D is located on the clearing-sections F, near their center ICO of length, and is of a length slightly iii-excess of the space bounded by the outer corners of said sections.

Two mating finger-springs E are provided with coiled ends f, which are secured to diagonally-opposite ends of the cross-bars A C,

so that their other ends may engage the vertically-perforated ends of the bar D.

The construction of the finger-springs E adapt them to press with equal force on the outer ends of the equalizing-bar D, hold the clearing-sections of the implement normally depressed, and permit either section to rise at either end or both sections to rise together, when the resistance encountered is equal at all points engaged by the flanges c of said clearing-sections.

It is evident that the thin flanges c of the clearing-sections F will scrape all superfluous portions of meat from the teeth of the flanges on the channel-plates and free them from the material operated upon at each stroke of the implement thereon.

It is preferred to make a toe g on one of the springs E shorter than the toe on the other spring, which will permit the ready disconnection of the equalizing-bar D by elevation of the spring having the short toe, so that a removal of the clearing-sections is facilitated and their replacement rendered easy of execution. By making the cross-bar A integral with the handle-bar A angular distortion of the connected parts is avoided. The peculiar construction of this household implement makes it effective in its operation, adapting it to render tough meat tender by the intimate subdivision of its fibers and compact muscular portions of the same.

In Fig. 4 I show a modification of the device wherein the equalizing-bar D is dispensed with and the ends of the springs attached directly to the clearing-plates, it being understood that such clearing-plate is provided with springs, the springs E being slightly modified in form, as shown in Fig. 5,

channel-plates spaced apart and secured to the cross-bars by their ends, two clearing-sections having sliding engagement with the channel-plates, a transverse bar, and two finger-springs engaging the said bar to yie1d ingly depress-the clearing-sections, sub'stans tially as set forth.

2. In a meat-tenderer, the combination, with a handle having an integral cross-bar, a matin g cross-bar, and three similar channel-plates secured by their ends to the cross-bars and having their depending parallel flanges provided with teeth that are chisel-pointed, of clearing-sections composed of parallel flanges and integral webs, which sections are located between the channel-plates and having sliding engagement therewith, and a transverse equalizing-bar which is engaged by fingersprings and adapted to yieldingly depress the clearing-sections, substantially as set forth.

3. In a meat-tenderer, the combination,with a frame formed of longitudinal channel-bars spaced apart and having teeth on their lower edges and cross-bars connecting the toothed channel-bars, of spring-pressed clearingplates project-ing down through thespa'ces between the channel-bars and having their ends projecting over the cross-bars of the EDSON J. SEVERANQE.

Witnesses:

L. J. STOCKING, CHAs. BENT. 

